Publications

Academic publications in reversed chronological order.

2025

  1. AGE-US: Automated Gestational Age Estimation Based on Fetal Ultrasound Images
    In Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 2025

2024

  1. BMCBioinformatics
    PrimerEvalPy: a tool for in-silico evaluation of primers for targeting the microbiome
    Lara Vázquez-González, Alba Regueira-Iglesias, Carlos Balsa-Castro, Nicolás Vila-Blanco, Inmaculada Tomás, and 1 more author
    BMC bioinformatics, 2024
  2. Efficient Multi-Modal Whole Heart Segmentation via Cascaded U-Net: A Practical Solution for Clinical Settings
    Raul J Salgado-Garcia, Nicolás Vila-Blanco, María J Carreira, and Marta Nuñez-Garcia
    In MICCAI Challenge on Comprehensive Analysis and Computing of Real-World Medical Images, 2024
  3. Randomised-crossover clinical trial on the substantivity of a single application of a gel containing chlorhexidine and o-cymen-5-ol on the oral biofilm and saliva
    Berta Suárez-Rodríguez, Alba Regueira-Iglesias, Triana Blanco-Pintos, Alba Sánchez-Barco, Nicolás Vila-Blanco, and 3 more authors
    BMC Oral Health, 2024

2023

  1. In silico evaluation and selection of the best 16S rRNA gene primers for use in next-generation sequencing to detect oral bacteria and archaea
    Alba Regueira-Iglesias, Lara Vázquez-González, Carlos Balsa-Castro, Nicolás Vila-Blanco, Triana Blanco-Pintos, and 3 more authors
    Microbiome, 2023
  2. Short-term anti-plaque effect of a cymenol mouthwash analysed using the DenTiUS Deep Plaque software: a randomised clinical trial
    Berta Suárez-Rodríguez, Alba Regueira-Iglesias, Triana Blanco-Pintos, Carlos Balsa-Castro, Nicolás Vila-Blanco, and 2 more authors
    BMC Oral Health, 2023
  3. Impact of 16S rRNA gene redundancy and primer pair selection on the quantification and classification of oral microbiota in next-generation sequencing
    Alba Regueira-Iglesias, Lara Vázquez-González, Carlos Balsa-Castro, Triana Blanco-Pintos, Nicolás Vila-Blanco, and 2 more authors
    Microbiology Spectrum, 2023
  4. A systematic overview of dental methods for age assessment in living individuals: from traditional to artificial intelligence-based approaches
    Nicolas Vila-Blanco, Paulina Varas-Quintana, Inmaculada Tomas, and Maria J Carreira
    International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2023
  5. Few-Shot Image Classification for Automatic COVID-19 Diagnosis
    Daniel Cores, Nicolás Vila-Blanco, Manuel Mucientes, and María J Carreira
    In Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 2023

2022

  1. A few-shot approach for COVID-19 screening in standard and portable chest X-ray images
    Daniel Cores, Nicolas Vila-Blanco, Maria Perez-Alarcon, Anxo Martinez-de-Alegria, Manuel Mucientes, and 1 more author
    Scientific Reports, 2022
  2. XAS: Automatic yet eXplainable Age and Sex determination by combining imprecise per-tooth predictions
    Nicolás Vila-Blanco, Paulina Varas-Quintana, Ángela Aneiros-Ardao, Inmaculada Tomás, and María J Carreira
    Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2022
  3. IDALib: a Python library for efficient image data augmentation
    Nicolás Vila-Blanco, Raquel R Vilas, and María J Carreira
    In 2022 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), 2022

2021

  1. Automated description of the mandible shape by deep learning
    Nicolás Vila-Blanco, Paulina Varas-Quintana, Ángela Aneiros-Ardao, Inmaculada Tomás, and María J Carreira
    International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, 2021
  2. Zftool: A software for automatic quantification of cancer cell mass evolution in zebrafish
    Marı́a J Carreira, Nicolás Vila-Blanco, Pablo Cabezas-Sainz, and Laura Sánchez
    Applied Sciences, 2021

2020

  1. DenTiUS plaque, a web-based application for the quantification of bacterial plaque: development and usability study
    Nicolás Vila-Blanco, Vicente Freire, Carlos Balsa-Castro, Inmaculada Tomás, and Marı́a J Carreira
    Journal of medical Internet research, 2020
  2. Towards deep learning reliable gender estimation from dental panoramic radiographs
    N Vila-Blanco, RR Vilas, MJ Carreira, and I Tomás
    In Proceedings 9th European starting AI researchers’ symposium co-located with 24th European conference on artificial intelligence (ECAI 2020), 2020
  3. TMI
    Deep neural networks for chronological age estimation from OPG images
    Nicolas Vila-Blanco, Maria J Carreira, Paulina Varas-Quintana, Carlos Balsa-Castro, and Inmaculada Tomas
    IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, 2020

2018

  1. Fully automatic teeth segmentation in adult OPG images
    Nicolás Vila Blanco, Timothy F Cootes, Claudia Lindner, Inmaculada Tomás Carmona, and Maria J Carreira
    In International Workshop on Computational Methods and Clinical Applications in Musculoskeletal Imaging, 2018

2016

  1. gVARVI: A graphical software tool for the acquisition of the heart rate in response to external stimuli
    N Vila Blanco, L Rodrı́guez-Liñares, Pedro Cuesta, Marı́a J Lado, Arturo J Méndez, and 1 more author
    Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 2016